Signal Strength Question

[baldybill]

But is the problem a software based problem or a hardware based one?
If hardware based, then it never will be truly fixed with software updates.

[cereal killer]

But is the problem a software based problem or a hardware based one?
If hardware based, then it never will be truly fixed with software updates.

Nobody truly knows. The thing that has me thinking it's something deeper is the WiFi signal is also impacted. So this tells me its something to do with the radios in general (obviously)

A weak dBm says hardware to me. Instability is one thing. Weak reception is a whole other. I don't know.

[flyinion]

But is the problem a software based problem or a hardware based one?
If hardware based, then it never will be truly fixed with software updates.

My guess would be that it is software based unless someone gets the random phone with some bad hardware. When something like this is big enough that this many people are having it, it seems like something software based unless there is a really bad engineering flaw in the hardware *cough*appleAntennaGate*cough*.

[flyinion]

Nobody truly knows. The thing that has me thinking it's something deeper is the WiFi signal is also impacted. So this tells me its something to do with the radios in general (obviously)

A weak dBm says hardware to me. Instability is one thing. Weak reception is a whole other. I don't know.

Yeah but maybe the software is just operating the hardware incorrectly and not correctly measuring the signal strength as well. It one of those things we'll probably never know for sure unless they either come out and tell us, or the dev community figures it out and tells us.

[cereal killer]

Yeah but maybe the software is just operating the hardware incorrectly and not correctly measuring the signal strength as well. It one of those things we'll probably never know for sure unless they either come out and tell us, or the dev community figures it out and tells us.

I don't know enough about the tech behind it but the radios mW can be dialed down to preserve battery life. One of the side effects is poorer reception but the benefit is less heat and the obvious better battery life. So they must find the sweet spot between heat, battery life and reception. This MAY be the best that it gets.

It's that whole conundrum of fixing one thing and "breaking" another. I don't know if that mW can be adjusted via a software update. That is above my pay grade. Perhaps somebody knows that answer but I'm not certainly going to pretend I do

Something to think about is that Charge users complained about the same thing, poor reception, and thats still yet to be fixed.